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Vaselesa [24]
3 years ago
14

An increasing amount of evidence suggests that being a person of color in a society filled with prejudice and discrimination tak

es a hidden toll in terms of average life span. The main concept the text uses to explain this is
A.
anger

B.
personality disorder

C.
depression

D.
stress

5 points

QUESTION 2

Individual discrimination is defined as

A.
discrimination that is inherent in the entire social system.

B.
discrimination that pervades the practices of whole institutions such as housing or medical care.

C.
discrimination that individuals practice in their daily lives usually because they are prejudiced.

D.
that targets one individual minority group but not racial or ethnic groups in general.

5 points

QUESTION 3

The text points out that most of the time whites are able to avoid unpleasant experiences such as being stopped by the police or being mistaken for a bellhop in a hotel because of their race. The text states these are examples of what social scientists commonly refer to as

A.
white privilege

B.
racial elitism

C.
white perogative

D.
racial entitlement

5 points

QUESTION 4

An ethnic group is a

A.
collection of people who share certain common physical characterisitcs

B.
a group that has been treated unfairly by society

C.
collection of individuals who are located on the same level of the social class ladder

D.
subgroup of a population with a set of shared historical, social, and cultural experiences.

5 points

QUESTION 5

According to group threat theory

A.
individuals with various problems become frustrated and tend to blame them on minority groups.

B.
prejudice arises from competition over jobs and from disagreement over political issues

C.
certain personalities, that are prone to racial and ethnic prejudice, develop in childhood in response to parents who practice harsh discipline.

D.
people who are prejudiced are merely conforming to the culture in which they grew up.

5 points

QUESTION 6

Which of the following statements concerning the changing nature of prejudice is true?

A.
Modern stereotypes about African Americans are less likely to view their poverty as due to cultural inferiority.

B.
The Nazi experience and the civil rights movement reinforced pre-existing views that whites held of African Americans.

C.
Whites are more likely than ever to view African Americans as biologically inferior.

D.
Jim Crow racism has been replaced by a more subtle form of racial prejudice termed symbolic or laissez-faire racism.

5 points

QUESTION 7

The Kerner Commission's 1968 report

A.
disproved the main propositions set forth in An American Dilemma.

B.
provided strong evidence that relations between racial and ethnic groups improved during the time period from the 1930s to the 1960s

C.
documented the unfair treatment given to Catholic immigrants in the 1950s.

D.
reminded the nation that little had been done to improve race and ethnic relations in America since the publishing of An American Dilemma.

5 points

QUESTION 8

What is the term for a concept that has no objective reality but rather is what people decide it is?

A.
social fact

B.
emergent property

C.
reality sui generis

D.
social construction

5 points

QUESTION 9

Scholars such as Elijah Anderson argue that even if a street culture or oppositional culture exists among some African Americans, it stems from the segregation and poverty that individuals face in their daily lives and and helps them deal with these difficulties.

True

False

5 points

QUESTION 10

The _________ explanation for racial and ethnic inequality states that a failure to value hard work and a lack of strong family ties account for the poverty and other problems facing minority groups.

A.
biological

B.
conflict

C.
structural

D.
cultural
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